Button-displaying device.



No. s5|,7|2. Patented 1m I2, 1900.

M. HARZBEBG.

BUTTON DISPLAYING DEVICE.

(Application filed Sept. 23, 1899..

(No Model.)

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MEYER HARZBERG, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

BUTTON-DISPLAYING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,712, dated June 12, 1900.

Application filed September23, 1899. Serial No. 731,416. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, MEYER HARZBERG, of St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved Button-Displaying Device, of which,

the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention is an improvement in buttondisplaying devices; and it consists in certain details of construction and arrangement of the parts hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view showing my invention as applied to the outer surface of a cylindrical box. Fig. 2 is a detail'showing in face view a small section of a plate constructed after my invention, and Fig. 3 is a section taken upon the line 8 3 of Fig. 2.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap and attractive device for holding collar and cuff buttons and similar articles which will attractively display them and in which the buttons may be quickly inserted or removed. This is done by taking a sheet of thin metal or similar material and cutting out certain tongues therein. and then bending the material so as to offset these tongues, thus forming devices which will readily hold the buttons in place and within which the buttons maybe readily inserted and as readily withdrawn when desired. While the plate is preferably made of thin metal, it is evident that other material, as pasteboard or celluloid, might be used for this purpose, although the metal plate is preferable because it is more durable.

The sheet A has a series of tongues 13 cutout therefrom and attached to the body of the plate only bythe narrow sections Gr, which sections are bent upwardly, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, so that the bodies of the tongues 13 are offset from the body of the plate a sutficient distance to accommodate the bases of the buttons. Each tongue B is connected with the tongue next above it in any row by a narrow neck 0. The surfaces of the tongues B and the necks O, which connect the adjacent tongues in the next row, are all upon the same level, said level being slightly raised from the surface of the body of the plate A. The space at E between the rounded upper corners of the tongues 13 in two adjacent rows and the bases of the two tongues B next above is of sufficient size to permit the ready insertion of the base of the button. From this point the button is slid down ward and back of the edges of the two tongues 13 until it occupies the position indicated at D in Fig. 2, the same representing the back of a collarbutton in position. The shank (l of the collar-button is sufficiently small to pass between the lower portions .of the adjacent tongues B. It will be seen that it is a very easy matter to insert or remove buttons from a plate of this character. The lower tongues in each row are joined to the body of the plate A across their entire width, while the upper ends of the neck connected with the upper row of tongues is connected directly with the body of the plate A. This form of plate may be very cheaply manufactured and may be made of such material as to present a very attractive appearance. It may be used as a plain flat plate or may be used to cover some sort of a receptacle. In Fig. l a plate of this character is used to cover the outside of a cylindrical box H. This is only one illustration of the mannerin which the plate may be used.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A display device for holding collar or similar buttons, comprising a plate having rows of tongues, each tongue consisting of an upper narrow neck attached at its upper end to the base, and a lower wider body attached at its lower end to the base, the plate being adapted to receive the base of a collar or similar button beneath the lower wider portions of the two tongues of adjacent rows.

2. A display device for holding collar or similar buttons, comprising a plate having rows of tongues integral with and slightly olfset from the base of the plate, each tongue consisting of a body portion connected by one end with the base, and a narrow neck extending from the otherend of the body and connected with the body of the adjacent tongue in the row.

MEYER HARZBERG.

Witnesses:

P. P. ROLLER, A. J. JENNINGS. 

